The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-04-08
Climate and Health in North Dakota

In no part of the Union can man with
moderate capital, or with only his energy
aud strong arms for beginning so soon
secure competency as in the Northwest.
OF course, there are incidents and varia
tions Of fortune here, as elsewhere. But
the basis of general prosperity is tie nat
ural character of country its prOduc-
tions, its climate and its soil. There are
drawbacks in North DakoIa, as elsewhere,
but in the great factors which make hu
man existence possible and favor dense
population; these of ability to produce
human food, both animal and vegetable.
and climatic influence on longevity, or
length of life. the Red River valley and
North Dakota possess to Il creator extent
than any part of the continent. AT the
bottom of the social economy, The world
oyer, is to be found the farmer Produc
ing those things which directly sustain life
he, if any, is the aristocrat.
The climate of North Dakota, in winter,
bright, dry and cold, is exceedingly pleas
ant, and the only effect is to stimulate
activity in business and the ordinary
avocalions of life. Though it is cold the
absence of humidity, as indicated by the
Signal Service records, causes it to be UNI
noticed and unfet to the degree noted in
TIC Hullllu OOulu anu IIuSt.
The characteristics of country have
important influence on its productions.
and the cold, dry, solid winters Of North
Dakota, give it most important advantages
over other sections. Heat, while the source
of all life, if IN excess of the natural
demands of the man or plant, is an active
cause deterioration decay. Man and our
domestic animals thrive best in cold eli
10 NV ha Of
different countries Cold weather, ev
en- il uncomfortable, invigorances and
build up, as shown by the fact that IN
every city in the United States, the death
rate is invariably least in the coolest
month, and as surely the greatest in the
warmest month. In st. Louis, Mo-, for
instance, during the month of July, the
death rate increases at q certain ratio for
every degrees increase in temperature about
70 degrees. The infant mortality in the
in the hot months is terriblc-it is indeed
a"slaughter of the nnocents." Dakota and
Minnesota, north of latitude 45 are the
only regions east of the hockey Mountains
where there is no appreciable increase of
deaths in summer. Cold weather favors
healthy and natural secretions in all the
bodily organs Warm weather has the OPP
positc effect. This is exemplfied, for
instance, by the death rate IN torrid Texas
one in forty-siX per annum; in cool Miune
sofa, one in one hundred and twenty seven
per annnm. the showing is more favorable
for Dakota. People will never suffer rs
much from cold In Dakota as in any one
of the central or Eastern States; it is too
dry M Dakota for radiation of heat from
the body. The heat of summer in North
Dakota, averaging ga degrees bears closer
relation to that of the most prosperous and
densely populated sections of the Old
World-Great Britain. Northern France,
Belgium and North Germany-than any
other part of the United States In Eng
land the summer temperature will average
G1 degrees; in Scotland. 81 degrees; in Bel
GUM, 62 degrees and in North Germany,
63 degrees. In these European countries
is where the best horses, cattle and sheep
wheat, oats, barley and roots are grown.
II is too cold for Indian corn. In southern
Europe the average summer temperature
rises 10 6S and above. and the corn belt be
gins, but no one thinks of going there to
buy the Norman, Percheron, horse. No one
thinks of buying the Short Horn, Here
ford Devon or ''Doddoc" in sunny Italy.
It's too warm they don't grow there; yet
Italy is cooler in summer than our corn
belt" The Red River valley black soil,
full of "phosphates, would not produce
the famous No. hard wheat, oats, flax,
rye, barley and other small grains of such
fine quality and in such quantities, IL its
summer averaged 81 degrees instead of ga
degrees The summer isotherm of 81 de-
grees, inevitable limits the growth of that
famous grade. No. hard Fife. to the
country north of lat. 45.50.-St Paul
Glode